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Hi all, I've got a slight problem loading this game. When I install the game it tells me that I don't have a 3dfx card, but I have a Voodoo2 Orchid Righteous in my machine..any ideas on how to rectify this problem would be appreciated. See Ya's Chris

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> Hi all, I've got a slight problem loading this game. > When I install the game it tells me that I don't have a 3dfx card, but I > have a Voodoo2 Orchid Righteous in my machine..any ideas on how to rectify > this problem would be appreciated. > See Ya's > Chris

Chris, The sim looks for glide.dll and sst1init.dll in thw Windows\System folder to see if you have a 3dfx card. You can simply put those two files in that folder and then rerun the options routine and it should see the card. I read about this fix on either the Ubisoft site or at the f1racingsim site. One of 'em had a little zip file where you could grab just those two files. If you cant find 'em, email me and I'll shoot you a copy of the zip file, it's only about 150k. Good luck with your card, I'm sure that will fix it. All the best, Mike -- Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works Computer/Audio/Video Convergence "from Creative minds spring Creative solutions." http://www.creativemedia-works.com Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org

But delete the two files after you have installed, otherwise I've heard you can get wierd video results with a voodoo2. >Chris, > The sim looks for glide.dll and sst1init.dll in thw Windows\System folder >to see if you have a 3dfx card. You can simply put those two files in that >folder and then rerun the options routine and it should see the card.

Also, if you click the INFO button on the install screen, it will check to see if your 3dfx card is properly installed. I just upgraded to W98 and had to reinstall everything. This had me going for a few minutes :-) All I can suggest is keep working and check the INFO button until the 3dfx card is seen. It worked for me. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. >But delete the two files after you have installed, otherwise I've heard you >can get wierd video results with a voodoo2. >>Chris, >> The sim looks for glide.dll and sst1init.dll in thw Windows\System >folder >>to see if you have a 3dfx card. You can simply put those two files in that >>folder and then rerun the options routine and it should see the card.

Hi Chris, The following is an extract from the FAQ by davide Greene, which can be seen on my F1RS Page http://home.pix.za/cm/cm000002/ I hope that this helps you Chad Voodoo 2 Cards There can be a problem with detection during installation, see the installation section for more details. It is important that you upgrade to the latest 1.08 version as this corrects the "pinkish font corruption" problem. It is also recommended you have your windows desktop in 800x600x16bit before launching F1RS. Installer cannot detect a 3Dfx Card (Voodoo1 or Voodoo2) If the F1RS install does not detect your 3DFX card, then you are probably using the 3DFX reference drivers or the very latest from Orchid. On installing these, a couple of files are missed out of your windows/system directory. Some software specifically uses these files to recognise the existence of a 3DFX card (including F1RS). The most straight forward solution is to put the files back in - this will not cause any problems or degrade the performance of the newer drivers, but will improve compatibility. The missing files are glide.dll and sst1init.dll. If you have these files lying around on your hard disk, just copy them back into your windows/system directory. If not, you can obtain them from http://www.ubisoft.co.uk/f1rs.zip

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>Hi all, I've got a slight problem loading this game. >When I install the game it tells me that I don't have a 3dfx card, but I >have a Voodoo2 Orchid Righteous in my machine..any ideas on how to rectify >this problem would be appreciated. >See Ya's >Chris